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And the rebuttal from the music industry?

Cue the "Sounds of Silence."

More money for better quality.

I'm all for that.

Who's going to tell the artists to produce better quality? Not The Labels. They could care less about quality. They package any crap along with one decent tune per CD.

Oh, you mean a different quality.

And Jobs response to the record label neophytes:

[Cue BTO]

"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!"

There's two kinds of quality. This one is about sound quality. That's a whole lot easier to solve than the quality of the songs themselves. That's a whole different problem.

Future price changes -- lower, if Apple demands it.

If anything, the pricing direction should be *down*. The music companies are burdened with a near ZERO marginal cost for electronic distribution, beyond the few cents they throw the artist. It's Apple that bears the capitol investment, marketing and support costs, not to mention risk. The music vendors should consider themselves lucky they're getting 65%, which is well above the retail norm.

I also would not support higher pricing for "quality" editions, as that would constitute a "wedge" to higher prices generally. As capitol and communication costs come down the quality should go up on its own without a price increase.

Nice take MDN!

DUH! Prices will eventually change. You can't buy a candy bar for a dime any more, either.

http://www.sissel.cc/blog/bloglet.html

Hey, I know this isn't the right forum for this, but I figure it'll get more attention here:

Has anyone noticed something funny in the "Virus" ad from Apple's new campaign? If you watch closely, at the point where the PC guy is stating the number of PC viruses (114,000), it seems pretty clear that the number has been changed from what the actor originally said on camera.

Go watch it. His mouth movements don't coincide with "114,000".

I wonder if the number was adjusted "up" or "down"? I know that I always thought there were more than 114,000 viruses out there for PC's. Maybe Apple decided to go with a 100% verifiable number, so it's a little lower than it might be.

Thoughts?

Chunky... yeah you're right. It looks like he said "140,000 know viruses for pc's"

Probably go the script wrong and fixed it in post production.

Good one, Horn Man! Welcome back!

And the music execs reply:

<cue Frank>

"Don't make me beg for your kisses,
Beg for your tender embrace,
I want your love, not your sympathy,
Please don't make a beggar of me."

Possibility remains open for future Apple iTunes price changes

Duh! Of course, but the prices will go up together instead of variable prices.

The quality of songs offered by ITMS should be raised, yes. Should they charge more for encoding 64kbps more than a 128kbps file, no.

Napster's tracks are 192kbps, at 99c. So should iTunes'.